coping with a loved one being missing theme
A character is upset because a loved one has disappeared and it is not known whether the loved one is dead or alive.
32 total · 3 choice · 11 major · 18 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahh1x28 | choice | Central to the story is David and Roberta Saunders' 17-year-old daughter going missing while the trio were vacationing in the South Western United States. |
| movie: The White Sheik (1952) | choice | Ivan went to the police when he realized that Wanda was missing. |
| owgm1x26 | choice | The story follows a young man, John Cambridge, after he arrives at a rundown boardinghouse in search of a missing woman who was in some unspecified way very dear to him. What John didn't know, and what the boardinghouse landlady deliberately concealed from him, is that the woman he was seeking had recently committed suicide in the very room that John rented at the boardinghouse. |
| ahh3x22 | major | Tommy and others were mighty concerned for Sally's safety after she vanished into the night in a city in which a serial strangler was on the loose. |
| ahp1x05 | major | Diana worried about her mother who was gravely ill and seemed to have vanished. |
| ftt1982e4x03 | major | The conclusion of the story was that the townspeople were punished by having their children taken away from them. The townspeople were distressed in the wake of the Pied Piper having made off with their children. |
| futurama3x20 | major | Fry refused to stop searching for Bender ever though Leela implored him to give up hope. |
| movie: The Forgotten (2004) | major | The story follows Telly as she tries to get to the bottom of what happened to her young son, Sam. Ditto for Ash and his young daughter, Lauren. |
| movie: The Truman Show (1998) | major | Truman's dad had been lost at sea |
| movie: Zone 414 (2021) | major | The deranged inventor Marlon hired the private investigator David to bring home his daughter, who'd gone missing in a city of only androids. |